Xavier Cortada has been commissioned to create art for the White House, the World Bank, the Florida Supreme Court, the Florida Governor's Mansion, Miami City Hall, Miami-Dade County Hall, the Miami Art Museum, the Museum of Florida History and the South Pole Station.
In 2006-2007, the Miami artist was awarded a National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers Program residency. For more information visit www.cortada.com
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITS
2007 The Reclamation Project and Native Flags
Miami Science Museum, Miami, Florida
2007 South Pole Installations
Wolfson Center Gallery, MDC Art Galleries,
Miami Florida
2006 The Reclamation Project
Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITS
2007 Weather Report (curated by Lucy Lippard)
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art,
Boulder, Colorado
2007 Envisioning Change
Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Norway
Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
2006 Miami in Transition
Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
ECOART
An essay by Mary Jo Aagerstaun, Ph. D.
Xavier Cortada did not know he was joining the worldwide ecoart movement when he began mobilizing Miami citizens in 2005 to promote mangrove reforestation in his home town, using his artistic imagination as the instigator. He just knew something had to be done. His artistic "greening" ...click to read the essay in its entirety
